US7497237B2 - Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage material and a method and device for the treatment of bottles and containers to be filled - Google Patents

Beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage material and a method and device for the treatment of bottles and containers to be filled Download PDF

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US7497237B2
US7497237B2 US11/167,077 US16707705A US7497237B2 US 7497237 B2 US7497237 B2 US 7497237B2 US 16707705 A US16707705 A US 16707705A US 7497237 B2 US7497237 B2 US 7497237B2
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
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  • the present application relates to a beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage material and a method and device for the treatment of bottles and containers to be filled.
  • a beverage bottling plant for filling bottles with a liquid beverage filling material can possibly comprise a beverage filling machine with a plurality of beverage filling positions, each beverage filling position having a beverage filling device for filling bottles with liquid beverage filling material.
  • the filling devices may have an apparatus designed to introduce a predetermined volume of liquid beverage filling material into the interior of bottles to a substantially predetermined level of liquid beverage filling material.
  • the apparatus designed to introduce a predetermined flow of liquid beverage filling material further comprises an apparatus that is designed to terminate the filling of the beverage bottles upon the liquid beverage filling material reaching the predetermined level in bottles.
  • There may also be provided a conveyer arrangement that is designed to move bottles, for example, from an inspecting machine to the filling machine.
  • a closing station closes the filled bottles.
  • a conveyer arrangement configured to transfer filled bottles from the filling machine to the closing station.
  • Bottles may be labeled in a labeling station, the labeling station having a conveyer arrangement to receive bottles and to output bottles.
  • the closing station and the labeling station may be connected by a corresponding conveyer arrangement.
  • liquid hydrogen peroxide for example, is finely atomized and mixed with a current of air, whereby the air is generally a current of sterile air. Then this hydrogen peroxide-air mixture is fed to a vaporizer in which any hydrogen peroxide that is still liquid is completely vaporized. Then this mixture of vapor and air is introduced into the containers to be sterilized, where the hydrogen peroxide immediately condenses on the cold interior walls of the container, where it forms a uniform liquid film. For the subsequent activation of the hydrogen peroxide, i.e.
  • this activation medium is sterile warm air that is injected into the containers and has been heated to the temperature required for the activation of the hydrogen peroxide.
  • the hydrogen peroxide decomposes into water and free radicals, namely atomic oxygen O and HO groups which essentially perform the actual sterilization.
  • the containers are blown out by means of rinsing air and/or dry air and dried.
  • the object is to describe a method that makes it possible to also reliably sterilize such containers, especially those that are temperature-sensitive on account of the container material used, i.e. that may not be heated above a specified maximum working temperature, and specifically with sufficiently high capacity (number of containers processed per unit of time).
  • the present application teaches that this object is accomplished by a method as described herein below.
  • the activation medium is heated to a processing temperature that is significantly higher than the maximum working temperature of the containers to be processed.
  • the hot activation medium is introduced into the individual containers during the activation phase in the form of pulses, for example all at once and/or in multiple introductions with interruptions, whereby the length of time during which the hot activation medium flows into the individual containers is then always shorter than the total duration of the activation phase.
  • the method taught by the present application is not exclusively suitable for the hydrogen peroxide sterilization of PET or plastic bottles or similar containers, the critical maximum working temperature of which is between approximately fifty five degrees Celsius and sixty degrees Celsius, whereby the containers may not be heated above this maximum working temperature to prevent shrinkage or deformation.
  • the processing or dispensing temperature of the hot activation medium is in the range between one hundred thirty degrees Celsius and one hundred fifty degrees Celsius, for example.
  • the present application is based on the knowledge that the speed of activation or decomposition of the hydrogen peroxide increases exponentially with the increase in temperature or with the increase in temperature of the activation medium, while on the other hand, the introduction of heat into the containers and thus the temperature of the containers increases only in a straight line with the temperature of the activation medium.
  • a sterilizer for the performance of the method is described herein below.
  • inventions or “embodiment of the invention”
  • word “invention” or “embodiment of the invention” includes “inventions” or “embodiments of the invention”, that is the plural of “invention” or “embodiment of the invention”.
  • inventions or “embodiment of the invention”
  • the Applicant does not in any way admit that the present application does not include more than one patentably and non-obviously distinct invention, and maintains that this application may include more than one patentably and non-obviously distinct invention.
  • the Applicant hereby asserts that the disclosure of this application may include more than one invention, and, in the event that there is more than one invention, that these inventions may be patentable and non-obvious one with respect to the other.
  • FIG. 1A is a schematic illustration of a container filling plant in accordance with one possible embodiment
  • FIG. 1 is a simplified overhead view of a rotor that rotates around a vertical machine axis of a sterilizer for bottles (plastic bottles, such as PET bottles, for example), or similar containers with a sterilizer or vaporizer head provided on the periphery of this rotor;
  • a sterilizer for bottles plastic bottles, such as PET bottles, for example
  • a sterilizer or vaporizer head provided on the periphery of this rotor
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 are sectional view along Lines I-I and II-II respectively in FIG. 1 ;
  • FIG. 4 is a box drawing of one possible embodiment of a treatment device.
  • FIG. 5 is a box drawing of another possible embodiment of a treatment device.
  • FIG. 1A shows schematically the main components of one possible embodiment example of a system for filling containers, specifically, a beverage bottling plant for filling bottles 4 with at least one liquid beverage, in accordance with at least one possible embodiment, in which system or plant could possibly be utilized at least one aspect, or several aspects, of the embodiments disclosed herein.
  • FIG. 1A shows a rinsing arrangement or rinsing station 101 , to which the containers, namely bottles 4 , are fed in the direction of travel as indicated by the arrow A 1 , by a first conveyer arrangement 103 , which can be a linear conveyor or a combination of a linear conveyor and a starwheel.
  • a first conveyer arrangement 103 which can be a linear conveyor or a combination of a linear conveyor and a starwheel.
  • the rinsed bottles 4 are transported to a beverage filling machine 105 by a second conveyer arrangement 104 that is formed, for example, by one or more starwheels that introduce bottles 4 into the beverage filling machine 105 .
  • the beverage filling machine 105 shown is of a revolving or rotary design, with a rotor 105 ′, which revolves around a central, vertical machine axis.
  • the rotor 105 ′ is designed to receive and hold the bottles 4 for filling at a plurality of filling positions 113 located about the periphery of the rotor 105 ′.
  • a filling arrangement 114 having at least one filling device, element, apparatus, or valve.
  • the filling arrangements 114 are designed to introduce a predetermined volume or amount of liquid beverage into the interior of the bottles 4 to a predetermined or desired level.
  • the filling arrangements 114 receive the liquid beverage material from a toroidal or annular vessel 117 , in which a supply of liquid beverage material is stored under pressure by a gas.
  • the toroidal vessel 117 is a component, for example, of the revolving rotor 105 ′.
  • the toroidal vessel 117 can be connected by means of a rotary coupling or a coupling that permits rotation.
  • the toroidal vessel 117 is also connected to at least one external reservoir or supply of liquid beverage material by a conduit or supply line. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1A , there are two external supply reservoirs 123 and 124 , each of which is configured to store either the same liquid beverage product or different products.
  • These reservoirs 123 , 124 are connected to the toroidal or annular vessel 117 by corresponding supply lines, conduits, or arrangements 121 and 122 .
  • the external supply reservoirs 123 , 124 could be in the form of simple storage tanks, or in the form of liquid beverage product mixers, in at least one possible embodiment.
  • each filling arrangement 114 could be connected by separate connections to each of the two toroidal vessels and have two individually-controllable fluid or control valves, so that in each bottle B, the first product or the second product can be filled by means of an appropriate control of the filling product or fluid valves.
  • a beverage bottle closing arrangement or closing station 106 Downstream of the beverage filling machine 105 , in the direction of travel of the bottles 4 , there can be a beverage bottle closing arrangement or closing station 106 which closes or caps the bottles 4 .
  • the beverage bottle closing arrangement or closing station 106 can be connected by a third conveyer arrangement 107 to a beverage bottle labeling arrangement or labeling station 108 .
  • the third conveyor arrangement may be formed, for example, by a plurality of starwheels, or may also include a linear conveyor device.
  • the beverage bottle labeling arrangement or labeling station 108 has at least one labeling unit, device, or module, for applying labels to bottles 4 .
  • the labeling arrangement 108 has three output conveyer arrangement: a first output conveyer arrangement 109 , a second output conveyer arrangement 110 , and a third output conveyer arrangement 111 , all of which convey filled, closed, and labeled bottles 4 to different locations.
  • the first output conveyer arrangement 109 is designed to convey bottles 4 that are filled with a first type of liquid beverage supplied by, for example, the supply reservoir 123 .
  • the second output conveyer arrangement 110 in the embodiment shown, is designed to convey bottles 4 that are filled with a second type of liquid beverage supplied by, for example, the supply reservoir 124 .
  • the third output conveyer arrangement 111 in the embodiment shown, is designed to convey incorrectly labeled bottles 4 .
  • the labeling arrangement 108 can comprise at least one beverage bottle inspection or monitoring device that inspects or monitors the location of labels on the bottles 4 to determine if the labels have been correctly placed or aligned on the bottles 4 .
  • the third output conveyer arrangement 111 removes any bottles 4 which have been incorrectly labeled as determined by the inspecting device.
  • the beverage bottling plant can be controlled by a central control arrangement 112 , which could be, for example, computerized control system that monitors and controls the operation of the various stations and mechanisms of the beverage bottling plant.
  • FIG. 1A further shows a treatment or sterilization device 1 , which treatment or sterilization device 1 is disposed between the beverage bottle cleaning machine and the beverage bottle filling machine.
  • the sterilizer which is designated 1 in general in the accompanying figures, and of which only a driven rotor 2 that rotates around a vertical machine axis and a sterilizer head 3 are shown, is used for the sterilization (hydrogen peroxide sterilization) of temperature-sensitive containers, namely PET bottles 4 with a hot sterilization medium which is formed from an air-water aerosol by heating.
  • each of the sterilizer heads 3 which are located, for example, at uniform angular intervals on the periphery of the rotor 2 , is a container or bottle carrier 2 . 1 , in which the individual bottle to be sterilized is suspended, for example, and namely so that it is equi-axial with a vertical sterilizer head axis KA, so that when the sterilizer head 3 is activated, a stream of hot sterilization medium can be dispensed into the interior of the bottle 4 to be sterilized, which is located underneath the sterilization head 3 .
  • the sterilizer head 3 comprises a heater or heat exchanger 5 with a housing 6 in which, among other things, a flow channel or heating channel 7 is realized that surrounds the axis KA in a helical fashion, and namely in the illustrated embodiment so that a core 8 is inserted in a cylindrical opening of the housing 6 , which opening is coaxial with the axis KA, and which core has a helical groove on its periphery that forms the flow channel 7 .
  • the upper end of the flow channel 7 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3 which is closed toward the outside, is in communication with a sprayer device 9 which supplies sterile compressed air via the connection 10 and which has a spray nozzle 11 which is supplied with hydrogen peroxide by means of the connection 12 and a pump (not shown), e.g. a membrane pump, which is connected with this connection, whereby the hydrogen peroxide is then introduced to form the hydrogen peroxide-air aerosol via the spray nozzle 11 in the form of a finely sprayed jet or mist into the air flow that is flowing through the spray device 9 , so that this aerosol which comprises air and hydrogen peroxide then arrives in the flow channel 7 of the heat exchanger 5 .
  • a sprayer device 9 which supplies sterile compressed air via the connection 10 and which has a spray nozzle 11 which is supplied with hydrogen peroxide by means of the connection 12 and a pump (not shown), e.g. a membrane pump, which is connected with this connection, whereby the hydrogen peroxide is then introduced to
  • the heat exchanger 5 and in particular also the core 8 is heated, and specifically to a temperature that is significantly above the maximum working temperature to which the bottles 4 may be heated without damage or deformation.
  • the core 8 is heated, for example, to a temperature in the range between approximately one hundred thirty degrees Celsius and one hundred fifty degrees Celsius.
  • the lower end of the housing 6 is formed by a closing element 14 , by means of which the respective sterilizer head 3 in the illustrated exemplary embodiment is also fastened to the rotor 2 , and in which a guide channel 15 for a rod 16 is realized equi-axially with the axis KA and open on the underside of the closing element 14 .
  • This guide channel 15 defines, with its axis, the axis KA and can be moved downward in the direction of the axis AK into an operating position by an actuator device 17 , which is provided above the heat exchanger 5 , from the raised idle position illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3 , against the action of a restoring spring 18 .
  • the rod 16 is also guided in a boring 19 which is realized equi-axially with the axis KA in the core 8 , and is also sealed in the vicinity of the upper side of the core 8 by gaskets 20 and in the lower portion of the core 8 by a seal 21 formed by an O-ring.
  • an additional seal 22 which in the illustrated exemplary embodiment is also formed by an O-ring, the rod is guided in the opening 16 in a sealed manner.
  • the core 8 forms a chamber 23 that surrounds the rod 16 , which chamber is in communication with the lower end of the flow channel 7 .
  • a channel 24 that is coaxial with the axis of this rod and is open on the underside of the rod, which channel 24 is open on its upper end by means of control openings 25 formed by transverse borings on the periphery of the rod 16 .
  • the control openings 25 are located inside the boring 19 , so that there is no flow connection out of the chamber 23 via the control openings 25 into the channel 24 . If the rod 16 is moved downward by the actuator device 17 into its activated or operating position, the control openings 25 are located in the chamber 23 , as a result of which there is a flow connection from this chamber via the control openings 25 into the channel 24 .
  • a tube 26 is fastened so that it can be exchanged or replaced, and so that said tube 26 is co-axial with the axis of the rod 16 and projects beyond the underside of the sterilizer head 3 or of the closure element 14 .
  • the channel realized in the tube is connected with the channel 24 .
  • the heat exchangers 5 of the heat exchanger heads 3 are heated by means of their electric heater devices 13 to the required processing temperature, for example to a temperature between one hundred thirty degrees Celsius and one hundred fifty degrees Celsius.
  • bottles to be sterilized are then transferred individually to a bottle receptacle on a bottle holder 2 . 1 of the rotating rotor 2 and after sterilization are removed from the rotor on a bottle outlet or are transported onward to a downstream filling machine.
  • the respective actuator device 17 is actuated in a controlled manner, so that the rod 16 and with it also the respective tube 26 are introduced into the bottle 4 , so that by means of the channel 24 that is in communication with the chamber 23 via the openings 25 and the tube channel realized in the tube 26 , the heated sterilization medium that is produced in the spray device 9 and is heated as it flows through the helical or spiral flow channel 7 , and which comprises hot air and in particular of vaporized hydrogen peroxide, is introduced into the respective bottle 4 via the dispensing opening 27 that is formed on the lower end of the tube 26 .
  • a relatively high operating temperature in the range of approximately one hundred thirty degrees Celsius and one hundred fifty degrees Celsius
  • a pulsed dispensing of the hot activation medium for which purpose a corresponding pulsed activation of the actuator device 17 is effected, for example, by moving the respective rod 16 multiple times between its idle position and its activated position. Because the air continues to be fed under pressure via the connection 10 , and an elevated pressure builds up in the flow channel 7 , in particular when the sterilizer head is not activated, i.e. whenever the rod 16 is in its idle position, it is possible to achieve an elevated enthalpy or quantity of heat, but in particular an elevated temperature for the hot activation medium.
  • the bottle 4 is blown out to remove condensate or remaining water.
  • 28 is a control valve in the supply line of the spray nozzle 11 , with which the hydrogen peroxide supply to this nozzle can be interrupted.
  • the heat exchanger 5 is heated by means of the electric heater device 13 (heater cartridge with temperature sensor), although there are other possibilities, such as heating by means of steam, for example.
  • FIG. 4 shows a box diagram of a treatment device according to one possible embodiment.
  • a pulse injecting system 210 could be driven by a pump 215 .
  • the pump 215 could comprise a cam structure 220
  • the pulse injecting system 210 could comprise a cam structure 225 .
  • the pump 215 could drive the injection system to move the tube 26 into an engaged position, and into a disengaged position. In the engaged position, treated air is pulsed into a bottle 4 .
  • the tube could then be moved into a disengaged position, then back into an engaged position, in a pulsing manner.
  • the tube 26 could inject treated air into a bottle 4 while being pushed into an engaged position, and while being pulled into a disengaged position.
  • a treatment device could comprise a supply of air 205 and a supply of treatment agent 250 .
  • the treatment agent could possibly be hydrogen peroxide, nitrogen, or any number of different treatment agents.
  • Air could flow from the supply of air 205 and treatment agent could flow from the supply of treatment agent into the spraying device 9 , where air and treatment agent are mixed to form treated air to treat bottles.
  • Treated air then flows into the heat exchanger head 3 to be heated. Once treated air is heated, it flows into the pulse injecting system 210 to be pulsed into bottles.
  • the pulse injecting system 210 permits heated, treated air to be pulsed into bottles 4 via the tube 26 in a controlled, pulsed manner.
  • the pulsed opening and closing of the valve system could be designed to heat only the inner surface of the bottle that is being treated, so as not to contort the bottle with excessive heat.
  • the pulsed opening and closing of the valve system could last milliseconds, such that bottles may be moved through the treatment machine at a high rate.
  • the pulsed opening and closing of the valve system could last longer or shorter than a few milliseconds.
  • the length of the pulse of treatment material into the bottles may be shorter or longer in other possible embodiments to accommodate different bottles. Further, the amount of treatment material dispensed into the bottles may be lesser or greater in other possible embodiments depending on different types of bottles. The amount of treatment material pulsed into bottles and the length of the pulse and the time between pulses in different embodiments may be determined through experimentation.
  • One feature or aspect of an embodiment is believed at the time of the filing of this patent application to possibly reside broadly in a sterilization method, in particular for the sterilization of bottles or similar containers, in particular of temperature-sensitive containers such as PET bottles, for example, whereby the hydrogen peroxide introduced into the container is activated by an activation medium, characterized by the fact that the activation medium is heated to a temperature that is above a maximum working temperature of the containers, and that the hot activation medium is introduced into the respective containers in a pulsed manner.
  • Still another feature or aspect of an embodiment is believed at the time of the filing of this patent application to possibly reside broadly in a sterilization method, characterized by the fact that during the processing, the introduction of the hot activation medium is interrupted at least once.
  • a further feature or aspect of an embodiment is believed at the time of the filing of this patent application to possibly reside broadly in a sterilization method, characterized by the fact that the hot activation medium is introduced into the individual bottle by a tube that is introduced into the bottle.
  • a sterilization method characterized by the use of a sterilizer with at least one sterilizer head and at least one heat exchanger in which an activation medium is heated to a temperature that is above the maximum working temperature of the container and is introduced by means of an outlet in a pulsed manner into the interior of the container to be sterilized.
  • a sterilizer for the processing in particular for the hydrogen peroxide sterilization of bottles or similar containers, whereby the hydrogen peroxide introduced into the containers is activated by an activation medium, with at least one heater channel through which the activation medium flows to heat the activation medium to a processing temperature, and with a valve control for the timed dispensing of the hot activation medium via a dispensing opening into the interior of the container to be sterilized, whereby the valve control has a control valve system and an actuator device which are realized so that they effect a pulsed opening and closing of the valve system.
  • Still another feature or aspect of an embodiment is believed at the time of the filing of this patent application to possibly reside broadly in a sterilizer, characterized in that the heater channel is realized to heat the activation medium to a processing temperature in the range between approximately one hundred thirty degrees Celsius and one hundred fifty degrees Celsius.
  • a further feature or aspect of an embodiment is believed at the time of the filing of this patent application to possibly reside broadly in a sterilizer, characterized by the fact that the heater channel is a channel that is coiled around an axis of the sterilizer head.
  • Still another feature or aspect of an embodiment is believed at the time of the filing of this patent application to possibly reside broadly in a sterilizer, characterized by a rod that can be moved axially by the actuator device in an axis parallel to a vertical sterilizer axis between an idle position and a work position, in which rod an axial channel is formed that is in communication with the dispensing opening, and which has, on the end the is farther from the dispensing opening, at least one control opening, which when the rod is in the work position is in communication with the heater channel or with a chamber that is connected with said channel.
  • a further feature or aspect of an embodiment is believed at the time of the filing of this patent application to possibly reside broadly in a sterilizer, characterized by the fact that the tube that forms the dispensing opening can be fastened on the end farther from the discharge openings to one end of the rod, preferably so that it can be replaced or exchanged.
  • a sterilizer characterized by a heater device, for example an electrical heater device or heater cartridge, to heat the heater channel.
  • a heater device for example an electrical heater device or heater cartridge
  • Still another feature or aspect of an embodiment is believed at the time of the filing of this patent application to possibly reside broadly in a sterilizer, characterized by a plurality of sterilizer heads on the periphery of a rotor that rotates around a vertical machine axis.
  • a further feature or aspect of an embodiment is believed at the time of the filing of this patent application to possibly reside broadly in a beverage bottling plant for filling beverage bottles with liquid beverage material
  • said beverage bottling plant comprising: a beverage bottle cleaning machine being configured and disposed to clean beverage bottles; a feed arrangement to supply beverage bottles to said beverage bottle cleaning machine; a beverage filling machine being configured and disposed to fill beverage bottles with liquid beverage material; said beverage filling machine comprising a plurality of beverage filling elements for filling beverage bottles with liquid beverage material; at least one liquid reservoir being configured to hold a liquid to be bottled; said at least one liquid reservoir comprising a gas headspace being disposed above a liquid to be bottled within said at least one liquid reservoir; at least one supply line being configured and disposed to connect said at least one liquid reservoir to said beverage filling machine to supply liquid beverage material to said beverage filling machine; a first conveyer arrangement being configured and disposed to move beverage bottles from said beverage bottle cleaning machine into said beverage filling machine; said first conveyer arrangement comprising a star wheel structure
  • a device to treat a container comprising: a source of a treatment agent; an apparatus being configured and disposed to treat gas with treatment agent; a heater being configured and disposed to heat treated gas prior to entry into a container; said heater being configured to heat treated gas to a temperature greater than the temperature which a container can tolerate without destructive effects on the container; a pumping arrangement being configured to pump and inject at least one pulse of heated gas into a container, which pulse of heated gas is so short that the heated gas does not have destructive effects on the container.
  • bottling systems which may be used or adapted for use in at least one possible embodiment of the present may be found in the following U.S. patents assigned to the Assignee herein, namely: U.S. Pat. No. 4,911,285; U.S. Pat. No. 4,944,830; U.S. Pat. No. 4,950,350; U.S. Pat. No. 4,976,803; U.S. Pat. No. 4,981,547; U.S. Pat. No. 5,004,518; U.S. Pat. No. 5,017,261; U.S. Pat. No. 5,062,917; U.S. Pat. No. 5,062,918; U.S. Pat. No.
  • stepping motors that may possibly be utilized or possibly adapted for use in at least one possible embodiment of the present application may possibly be found in the following U.S. patents: U.S. Pat. No. 6,348,774 issued to Andersen et al. on Feb. 19, 2002; U.S. Pat. No. 6,373,209 issued to Gerber et al. on Apr. 16, 2002; U.S. Pat. No. 6,424,061 issued to Fukuda et al. on Jul. 23, 2002; U.S. Pat. No. 6,509,663 issued to Aoun on Jan. 21, 2003; U.S. Pat. No. 6,548,923 to Ohnishi et al. on Apr. 15, 2003; and U.S. Pat. No. 6,661,193 issued to Tsai on Dec. 9, 2003.
  • servo-motors that may possibly be utilized or possibly adapted for use in at least one possible embodiment of the present application may possibly be found in the following U.S. patents: U.S. Pat. No. 4,050,434 issued to Zbikowski et al. on Sep. 27, 1977; U.S. Pat. No. 4,365,538 issued to Andoh on Dec. 28, 1982; U.S. Pat. No. 4,550,626 issued to Brouter on Nov. 5, 1985; U.S. Pat. No. 4,760,699 issued to Jacobsen et al. on Aug. 2, 1988; U.S. Pat. No. 5,076,568 issued to de Jong et al. on Dec. 31, 1991; and U.S. Pat. No. 6,025 issued to Yasui on Feb. 15, 2000.
  • control valve apparatus that may possibly be utilized or possibly adapted for use in at least one possible embodiment of the present application may possibly be found in the following U.S. patents: U.S. Pat. No. 5,406,975 issued to Nakamichi et al. on Apr. 18, 1995; U.S. Pat. No. 5,503,184 issued to Reinartz et al. on Apr. 2, 1996; U.S. Pat. No. 5,706,849 issued to Uchida et al. on Jan. 13, 1998; U.S. Pat. No. 5,975,115 issued to Schwegler et al. on Nov. 2, 1999; U.S. Pat. No. 6,142,445 issued to Kawaguchi et al. on Nov. 7, 2000; and U.S. Pat. No. 6,145,538 issued to Park on Nov. 14, 2000.
  • seal arrangements that may possibly be utilized or possibly adapted for use in at least one possible embodiment of the present application may possibly be found in the following U.S. patents: U.S. Pat. No. 5,411,273 issued to Pietsch et al. on May 2, 1995; U.S. Pat. No. 6,290,234 issued to Berle et al. on Sep. 18, 2001; U.S. Pat. No. 6,474,653 issued to Hintenlang et al. on Nov. 5, 2002; U.S. Pat. No. 6,616,146 issued to Friend et al. on Sep. 9, 2003; U.S. Pat. No. 6,692,007 issued to Oldenburg on Feb. 17, 2004; and U.S. Pat. No. 6,648,335 issued to Ezell on Nov. 18, 2003.
  • heater arrangements that may possibly be utilized or possibly adapted for use in at least one possible embodiment of the present application may possibly be found in the following U.S. patents; U.S. Pat. No. 6,404,421 issued to Meijler et al. on Jun. 11, 2002; U.S. Pat. No. 6,515,264 issued to Toya et al. on Feb. 4, 2003; U.S. Pat. No. 6,548,786 issued to Takizawa et al. on Apr. 15, 2003; U.S. Pat. No. 6,555,796 issued to Cusack on Apr. 29, 2003; U.S. Pat. No. 6,633,727 issued to Henrie et al. on Oct. 14, 2003; and U.S. Pat. No. 6,677,557 issued to Ito et al. on Jan. 13, 2004.
  • bottling systems which may possibly be utilized or adapted for use in at least one possible embodiment may possibly be found in the following U.S. patents: U.S. Pat. No. 6,684,602, entitled “Compact bottling machine;” U.S. Pat. No. 6,470,922, entitled “Bottling plant for bottling carbonated beverages;” U.S. Pat. No. 6,390,150, entitled “Drive for bottling machine;” U.S. Pat. No. 6,374,575, entitled “Bottling plant and method of operating a bottling plant;” U.S. Pat. No. 6,192,946, entitled “Bottling system;” U.S. Pat. No.
  • starwheels which may possibly be utilized or adapted for use in at least one possible embodiment may possibly be found in the following U.S. patents: U.S. Pat. No. 5,613,593, entitled “Container handling starwheel;” U.S. Pat. No. 5,029,695, entitled “Improved starwheel;” U.S. Pat. No. 4,124,112, entitled “Odd-shaped container indexing starwheel;” and U.S. Pat. No. 4,084,686, entitled “Starwheel control in a system for conveying containers.”
  • heat exchangers which may possibly be utilized or adapted for use in at least one possible embodiment may possibly be found in the following U.S. patents; U.S. Pat. No. 4,665,975, entitled “Plate type heat exchanger;” U.S. Pat. No. 6,810,948, entitled “Heat exchanger;” U.S. Pat. No. 6,799,428, entitled “Heat exchanger;” U.S. Pat. No. 6,394,179, entitled “Plate heat exchanger;” U.S. Pat. No. 6,125,649, entitled “Heat exchanger unit with conductive discs;” U.S. Pat. No. 5,579,650, entitled “Heat exchanger;” and U.S. Pat. No. 4,313,491, entitled “Coiled heat exchanger.”

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